Some projects are more than performances:
Tom Hollander has given time and energy to causes he believes in, either by going up front on the strength of his "celebrity" or working quietly behind the scenes to organize fundraising efforts. On this page, find references to events that have benefitted from Tom Hollander's participation. (For promotional appearances on behalf of his performances, see the related pages for Television and Voice.)
| 2009 | Trehilyn Farm Fundraising Weekend Point is a local drop-in center/after-school program for young people, age 11-25, based in west Wales. For the weekend of August 7-9, comedian, actor and writer Griff Rhys Jones opened his home, a 200 year old farm near Strumble Head for events to raise funds for the center, including a screening of "In The Loop". Other events included an auction, live musical entertainment and a pig roast and culminated in the reading of an original play, based on local historical events, called "A Play for Voices — The Last Invasion", staged in a historic barn at the site. Actors taking part included Chris Luscombe, Owen Teale, Steffan Rhodri, Sylvestra Le Touzel, James Faulkener and Tom Hollander. Read more about the weekend on the Point's website here and in this article, "Griff Rhys Jones to open Strumble Head's Trehilyn for Fishguard youth project", Western Telegraph [Wales], 18 here. |
| 2007 | Art Plus event: "Whitechapel and Hogan’s Art Plus Drama Party 2007" The Benefit Party was organised by a committee chaired by Mollie Dent Brocklehurst and Tom Hollander and featured performances by six actors of four spoken pieces, each commissioned from a leading artist. Pieces by Jenny Holzer, Ed Ruscha, Mark Titchner and Fiona Banner were performed by actors Rhys Ifans, Christopher Simon, Emilia Fox, Greta Scacci, Samantha Morton, Martine McCutcheon and Natalie Press. Hannah Collins photographed selected guests in the auditorium. The title sponsor of Art+ Drama was the Italian luxury goods brand Hogan. Urban Caprice supported the production and catering with St. Johns, Mourad Mazouz and Gary Fairfull each curated rooms upstairs and Oliver Barker of Sotheby's auctioned original artworks. The auction included the four scripts signed by artists and performers and the original artwork commissioned by Whitechapel Ventures for the Gallery's notebook series. The event generated £122,759 and made a net contribution to the Gallery of £65,476. 8 March. |
| 2007 | Monumental Adventure: Nunhead Cemetery (video) Nunhead Cemetery is perhaps the least known, but most attractive, of the great Victorian Cemeteries of London. Consecrated in 1840, it is one of the seven great Victorian cemeteries established in a ring around the outskirts of London. Tom takes us on a tour of a fascinating and secret hidden part of London. (Date uncertain but possibly 2007) |
| 2007 | The BUPA Great South Run "Britain's leading 10-mile running event", held in Portsmouth. Tom ran for two "causes" that day, Helen and Douglas House, and the Teenage Cancer Trust , and raised more than four thousand pounds. His position in the race was 5420, and his time over the ten miles was 1 hr. 33 min. 35 secs. 28 October. |
| 2006 | The BUPA Great South Run "Britain's leading 10-mile running event", held in Portsmouth. Tom ran for ChildLIne, a free helpline for children and young people in the UK. 22 October. |
| 2004 | Childish Things A gala evening for Helen and Douglas House. Oxford Playhouse, as organizer. 23 May. It was Tom who set in motion the first ever 'Childish Things' performance for Helen & Douglas House at the Oxford Playhouse in 2004. He approached [Helen and Douglas House] with the idea of putting on a benefit evening and a sell out audience saw turns from Tom, Hugh Laurie, Bill Nighy and Jeremy Irons among others. That night has become an annual event, raising thousands of pounds for this worthy cause. Tom’s participation in other years has depended on his filming schedule, but subsequent Childish Things evenings have been held on 20 November, 2005; 4 March, 2007 and 20 April, 2008, |
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| 2009 | A Christmas Concert of Carols and Readings A Christmas Concert of Carols and Readings in support of the Westminster Diocesan Pilgrimage to Lourdes featured Vox Cordis and guest readers include stars of the West End stage and television Janie Dee, Celia Imrie, Tom Hollander, Richard O’ Callaghan, John Warnaby and Dominic Hecht. 21 December. Tom read from Dicken's A Christmas Carol. |
| 2009 | John Mortimer at the Court... and later at the Bar The Royal Court Theatre celebrated the life of its late Chairman and President Sir John Mortimer CBE QC with an evening of readings, performances and music by some of British theatre’s biggest names in the Jerwood Theatre Downstairs, followed by a post-show reception in the Royal Court Café Bar. All proceeds went towards the Royal Court Theatre’s Writers Development Fund. 15 November, 2009. |
| 2009 | Our Late Night (1975) Written by Wallace Shawn. Seven people negotiate the minefield of dating and mating at a party in which they talk at one another, over one another, and around one another until language becomes less a means of communication than a weapon in a brutal struggle. Director Tom Cairns. Cast included Megan Dodds, Mark Gatiss, Tom Hollander, Jenny Jules, Peter McDonald, Andrew Scott, Jennifer Tilly. Royal Court Jerwood Theatre, 12 June. |
| 2008 | Sylvia Plath's Art of the Visual This revealing event offers a chance to gauge the value of Plath's art and explore its influence on her development as a writer, as actors Diana Quick, Elisabeth Gray and Tom Hollander read from and discuss her work with English academic and co-author of Eye Rhymes, Sally Bayley. 6 April, Newman Room, St Aldate's |
| 2007 | The Long and Short of it: A Benefit for Interact Stroke Recovery Reading Service. at the Actors’ Church. 21 June. |
| 2007 | Sylvia Plath: A Celebration A Benefit for the White Ribbon Alliance for International Mid-Wives. Oxford Playhouse. 28 October. |
| 2006 | Christmas Service Reading A Benefit for the St. Paul’s Knightsbridge Foundation. at St Paul’s Church. 7 December. |
| 2006 | Mojo; 10th Anniversary Reading (Part of "LOOK BACK: 50 READINGS, 50 WRITERS, 50 YEARS"). At the Jerwood Theatre, Upstairs.14 March. |
| 2005 | Christmas Carol Service for Nordoff-Robbins Music Therapy Programs 19 December. |
| 2005 | Poetry with Josephine Hart: Keats and Shelley A Poetry Hour at the British Library. 14 March. |
| 2005 | Poetry with Josephine Hart: World War One Poets A Poetry Hour at the British Library. 17 May. |
| 2004 | Poetry with Josephine Hart: The poems of Lord Byron Read by Sir John Mortimer and Friends. A Poetry Hour at the British Library. 12 May. |
| 2001 | Poetry with Josephine Hart: War Poets Reading with Joseph Fiennes and Friends. At the Apollo Theatre. 12 December. |
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| 2006 | BAFTA/LA Student Film Awards Host. American Film Institute (probably at the Mark Goodson Theatre) 15 JUNE. Photos. |
| 2005 | What's in it for Me? How Actors Choose Scripts. A Panel Discussion Co-presented with "Shooting People", an event for actors presented at the Curzon Soho Theatre. 29 October. |
| 2005 | Old Vic New Voices Event ("the 24 Hour Plays", as Host). Old Vic New Voices Event ("the 24 Hour Plays", as Host). At the Old Vic, and accompanied by a film, called "Extreme Theatre" by Artsworld. 31 July. |
| 2004 | Women in Film and Television Presenter. |
| 2003 | BAFTA LA Q&A with actors Tom Hollander, Samuel West, and producer Mark Shivas. Moderated by Peter Morris ("Cambridge Spies"). Los Angeles Film School. 8 July. |
| 2003 | BAFTA LA Q&A with Tom Hollander. ("Lawless Heart"). Pacific Design Center. 15 January |
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